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JABB Electric Guitar+Distortion Effect

Has anyone tried using the distortion effect on the Electric Guitar in JABB? I'm wondering because I'm trying to render a ska arrangement of a song and I'm using JABB for the horns, drums, bass, and guitar, but there's no distortion or overdrive pedal for the guitar (which would be nice to have).

If anyone's had good luck with the distortion effect, can you tell me the settings you used (or if you have a seperate plug-in to apply the pedal effect to)

Re: JABB Electric Guitar+Distortion Effect

Sorry, forgot to add that. I'm using KP as a vst instrument. One instance for everything else, and another instance for just the guitar, since the distortion effect is applied to all instruments in that instance.

Re: JABB Electric Guitar+Distortion Effect

The VibAmnt knob (CC#3) is an alternative to AfterTouch, in case your Keyboard lacks this - you can use either one. WhamBar knob (CC#5) sets the amount of whammy bar vibrato. Both kinds of vibrato use VibSpd (CC#17) to set Vibrato speed.

Re: JABB Electric Guitar+Distortion Effect

I'm using KP as a vst instrument. One instance for everything else, and another instance for just the guitar, since the distortion effect is applied to all instruments in that instance.

In Kontakt player, you should be able to put effects per instrument too, by either routing the guitar instrument's audio to it's own channel in the kontakt mixer and choosing an effect there, or using an insert effect which are accessed by pressing on the wrench icon on the instrument in the rack.
IF all instruments are routed to one channel in KP mixer, then yes you will have the effect on everything, but this can easily be re-routed as mentioned above..there shouldn't be any need for a unique instance for the guitar.
Hope that makes sense and having said that, there are also tons of 3rd party VST options if you want to process\distort outside of Kontakt (ie insert effects on the track in the DAW). Freeamp 3 is a very feature rich guitar amp\cabinet simulator, and if you do a search for VST amp simulators and\or distortion effects you should come up with a boatload of freebies from amp sims to guitar fx pedal plugins.
The filterable search at KVR can't be beat for finding plugins. Also this thread came up today over at KVR:http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203085

Last edited by chesterdesmond; 01-08-2008 at 03:52 PM.
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